L'Ouverture
Americannoun
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Yellow fever, he said, gave local armies—such as the one Toussaint L’Ouverture commanded over for Haiti’s liberation—a crucial edge over invaders with immune systems that were new to the virus.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 27, 2023
It can be startling to learn that Toussaint L’Ouverture, famous as Haiti’s great emancipator, was also a slaveholder.
From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2021
They aren’t wanted now any more than when Toussaint L’Ouverture in 1791 led the successful slave rebellion there that inspired enslaved Africans throughout the Americas to strike back en masse against those who held them.
From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2018
And was it a coincidence that the leaders of well-known slave rebellions, such as Toussaint L’Ouverture, Gabriel Prosser and Nat Turner, were literate slaves?
From Time • Sep. 16, 2015
When Toussaint L’Ouverture led a revolt of black Haitian slaves in 1801, Napoleon sent his brother-in-law, General Charles LeClerc, and a military force of approximately 29,000 to crush the rebels.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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